hydrocarbon

Clumps of Organic Carbon Found Within Serpentinites

Research into abiotic hydrogen and hydrocarbons, which form from chemical reactions that are…

A new open-access special issue on Deep Matter and Energy contains sixteen papers that span all…

In theory, the process of serpentinization, where seawater infiltrates and reacts with the mantle…

In 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover scooped up a handful of Martian soil and analyzed its contents to…

Subduction zones, where the edge of one tectonic plate slips beneath another, have earned the…

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has enabled natural gas companies to reach new heights in…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a rocky core, surrounded by a global ocean encrusted by a sheet of ice…

Rather than forming from living material, abiogenic hydrocarbons form from inorganic reactions…

Due to its ubiquity on the surface, acetate could end up in the deep subsurface through subduction…

In a new review in ChemistrySelects, three Deep Carbon Observatory researchers synthesize theory,…